ABL 0591 (P334406)
Letter, Neo-Assyrian, Nineveh · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE
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| Designation | ABL 0591 |
|---|---|
| ID | P334406 |
| Museum no. | BM — |
| Collection | British Museum, London, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Assyrian · c. 911 BCE–612 BCE |
| Genre | Letter |
| Find spot | Nineveh (mod. Kuyunjik) |
| Coordinates | 36.3582, 43.1621 |
English translation
By ORACC project saao/saa10 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:5] o 1o 1–o 55 | [To] the king, [my] lord: yo[ur servant] N[abû']a. May Nabû and Marduk bless the king, my lord! |
| Obverse [5:10] o 66– | Concerning the watch about which the king, my lord, wrote to me, we shall keep it and write (to the king). |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| o | ||
| 1 | [a-na] ⸢LUGAL⸣ be-li₂-[ia] | |
| 2 | [ARAD]-⸢ka⸣ {1}⸢na⸣-[bu-u]-a | |
| 3 | {d}AG u {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 4 | a-na LUGAL EN-ia₂ | |
| 5 | lik-ru-bu | |
| 6 | ina UGU ma-ṣar-te | |
| 7 | ša LUGAL be-li₂ | |
| 8 | iš-pur-an-ni | |
| 9 | ni-na-ṣar | |
| r | ||
| 1 | ni-šap-pa-ra | |
Sources & licences
- Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched) · Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), https://cdli.earth/ ; cite CDLI and the P-number
- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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